Thursday, 25 September 2014

Well, when I say storm, I really mean Christmas. Not that it is a bad time of year or anything, just a very busy one!

PUB SCRAWL

August was a lot of fun, Pub Scrawl especially. I was amazed how many people came along and enjoyed my 'donkey-installation'. The people running the Bath Hotel were super-helpful too, and made me feel right at home. I wrote an article for the Folksy blog if you'd like to read and see more pics, but I also made a wee film of my wooden donkeys here:

The wooden/MDF donkey are now for sale, as is the 'Pub Donkeys' 3-colour screen-print I produced. Money from the sales are going to the Donkey Sanctuary charity in Sidmouth. Only 20 screen-prints were produced, and there are only about 7 left. All of the small donkeys have been sold, and I have a limited number of the larger donkeys left. They are all listed on my Folksy shop:

NEW WORKSI have one new linocut to show you. It is of a goose I came across whilst at the wonderful Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It is a two-colour linocut print, printed on A3-size paper, and is called 'Greylag Goose'.

EVENTSI've no events coming up in October (the calm), but will report in my next blog about November/December happenings, including Sheffield Print Fair, The Harley Gallery and many more....

About Me

Brief Biography

I've been producing printed artwork for perhaps the last 14 years. In 2010 I decided to go full-time as an artist, and I'm still at it! I specialise in linocuts and screen-prints.

I graduated with a degree in Fine Art in 1995, specialising in photography (for no other reason than I didn't really enjoy painting or sculpture), and then spent the next few years in dead-end jobs and being unemployed, fighting with thousands of other arts graduates for the rare art-related jobs that appeared.

Eventually I worked in a few (non art-related) decent jobs, and then discovered print-making. It was a revelation to me. A way of creating art that felt physical and quite a challenge!

I'm inspired by the graphic quality of printmaking, and the way you can say a lot with very little. Artist-wise I'm inspired by people like Goya, Stanley Spencer, Max Beckmann and Egon Schiele. All quite direct artists. More contemporary people I like are the artist/graphic novelist Chris Ware, Kid Acne, illustrator Jonathan Wilkinson and cartoonist/writer Elodie Ginsbourg.

So I've been doing it ever since, and now spend all my time working on it (aside from the time spent being a musician - my other passion).

I've had a little success along the way being shortlisted in 2006 for the International Small Print Competition for my work 'Paris Buggy' and taking part in the 'Portrait Artist Of The Year' and 'Landscape Artist Of The Year' TV shows in 2013/2015 (reaching the semi-final in the latter). I've also produced commissions for people like Paul Smith Menswear,The Hepworth Wakefield, Sheffield Children's Festival, The Folk Forest music festival and Domino Records.

I sell my work via my Folksy shop, my NOTHS shop, to various shops and galleries around the UK, and also at various Art/Craft Markets.

I also have a facebook page too. Please come along and become a fan if you like my stuff!